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Further Workplace Health and Safety bosses will be grilled at the inquest into the Dreamworld disaster today, after a leading inspector admitted he had "no confidence" in the emergency procedures in place on the Thunder River Rapids ride.

"Obviously, whatever comes out of those discussions and out of future discussions between the prime minister and the premiers will feed into our plan for tax reform that we will take to the people at the next election," Mr Hockey said.

It looks likely that states and territories will agree to remove the $1000 GST threshold for foreign goods bought online.

Australian companies, which have to impose the GST on their sales, have long called for this loophole to be closed.

This has been dubbed a parcel pick-up tax, which Mr Hockey said was ridiculous.

"What we want to do is have neutrality that preserves Australian jobs, importantly, gives Australian businesses not an advantage but an equal opportunity to compete with everyone overseas," he said.

Mr Hockey said this was a global trend and Australia was not acting alone.

"Countries all around the world are doing this to make sure that there is no disadvantage to local businesses and local jobs," he said.